Professor's tweet was crass, but it's his right to free speech

6:32 PM,
Oct. 1, 2013

Written by

Ken Paulson

It's not just athletes and celebrities who damage their careers with indiscreet tweets. A University of Kansas journalism professor has blown up his career with a tweet after the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard: "Blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters."

The tweet was insensitive, disturbing and dumb, and elicited exactly the kind of reaction you'd expect.

Kansas legislators want associate professor David Guth to lose his job. Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce told the Associated Press, "Wishing death and damnation upon parents and their ...